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WRITING HIS UIARY 



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TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MS. 

Sg Mntk ®matn 



ILLUSTRATED BY 

F. STROTHMANN 




NEW YORK AND LONDON 
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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

APR 7 1904 

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Copyright, i8c,j 'jy Underhill & Nichols. 

Copyright, igoi, by Irving S. Underhill. 

Copyright, igoi, 1904, by Harper & Brothers. 

All rights reserved. 
Published April, 1904. 



[Note. — / translated a portion of this 
diary some years ago, and a friend of mine 
printed a few copies in an incomplete form, 
hut the public never got them. Since then 
I have deciphered some more of Adam's 
hieroglyphics, and think he has now become 
sufficiently important as a public character 
to justify this publication. — M. T.] 



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Mofiday 

This new creature with the long 
hair is a good deal in the way. It is 
always hanging around and following 
me about. I don't like this ; I am not 
used to company. I wish it would 
stay with the other animals. . . . 
Cloudy to-da}^ wind in the east ; think 
we shall have rain. . . . We ? Where 
did I get that word? ... I remember 
now — the new creature uses it. 



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Tuesday 

Been examining the great waterfall. 
It is the finest thing on the estate, I 
think. The new creature calls it 
Niagara Falls — why, I am sure I do 
not know. Says it looks like Niagara 
Falls. That is not a reason; it is 
mere waywardness and imbecility. I 
get no chance to name anything my- 
self. The new creature names every- 
thing that comes along, before I can 
get in a protest. And always that 
same pretext is offered — it looks like 
the thing. There is the dodo, for 
instance. Says the moment one looks 
at it one sees at a glance that it 
"looks like a dodo." It will have 
to keep that name, no doubt. It 
wearies me to fret about it, and it 
does no good, anyway. Dodo! It 
looks no more like a dodo than I do. 
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Wednesday 

Built me a shelter against the rain, 
but could not have it to myself in 
peace. The new creature intruded. 
When I tried to put it out it shed 
water out of the holes it looks with, 
and wiped it away with the back of its 
paws, and made a noise such as some 
of the other animals make when they 
are in distress. I wish it would not 
talk; it is always talking. That 
sounds like a cheap fling at the poor 
creature, a slur ; but I do not mean it 
so. I have never heard the human 
voice before, and any new and strange 
sound intruding itself here upon the 
solemn hush of these dreaming soli- 
tudes offends my ear and seems a 
false note. And this new sound is so 
close to me ; it is right at my shoulder, 
right at my ear, first on one side and 
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JVednesday 

then on the other, and I am used only 
to sounds that are more or less dis- 
tant from me. 



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Friday 

The naming goes recklessly on, in 
spite of anything I can do. I had 
a very good name for the estate, and 
it was musical and pretty — Garden- 
of-Eden. Privately, I continue to 
call it that, but not any longer pub- 
licly. The new creature says it is all 
woods and rocks and scenery, and 
therefore has no resemblance to a 
garden. Says it looks like a park, 
and does not look like anything hut a 
park. Consequently, without con- 
sulting me, it has been new-named 
— Niagara Falls Park. This is 
sufficiently high-handed, it seems to 
me. And already there is a sign up : 



KEEP OFF 
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Saturday 

The new creature eats too much 
fruit. We are going to run short, 
most likely. "We" again — that is 
its word ; mine too, now, from hearing 
it so much. Good deal of fog this 
morning. I do not go out in the fog 
myself. The new creature does. It 
goes out in all weathers, and stumps 
right in with its muddy feet. And 
talks. It used to be so pleasant and 
quiet here. 



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Sunday 

Pulled through. This day is get- 
ting to be more and more trying. It 
was selected and set apart last No- 
vember as a day of rest. I already 
had six of them per week, before. 
This morning found the new creature 
trying to clod apples out of that for- 
bidden tree. 



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Monday 

The new creature says its name is 
Eve. That is all right, I have no 
objections. Says it is to call it by 
when I want it to come. I said it 
was superfluous, then. The word 
evidently raised me in its respect; 
and indeed it is a large, good word, 
and will bear repetition. It says it 
is not an It, it is a She. This is prob- 
ably doubtful ; yet it is all one to me ; 
what she is were nothing to me if she 
would but go by herself and not talk. 



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Tuesday 

She has littered the whole estate 
with execrable names and offensive 
signs : 

|^° This way to the Whirlpool. 

IJ^^This way to Goat Island. 

|^° Cave of the Winds this Way. 

She says this park would make a 
tidy summer resort, if there was any 
custom for it. Summer resort — an- 
other invention of hers — just words, 
without any meaning. What is a 
summer resort? But it is best not 
to ask her, she has such a rage for 
explaining. 



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Friday 

She has taken to beseeching me to 
stop going over the Falls. What 
liarm docs it do? Says it makes her 
shudder. I wonder why. I have al- 
ways done it — always liked the 
plunge, and the excitement, and the 
coolness. I supposed it was what the 
Falls were for. They have no other 
use that I can see, and they must have 
been made for somctliing. She says 
they were only made for scenery — 
like the rhinoceros and the mastodon. 

I went over the Falls in a barrel — 
not satisfactory to her. Went over in a 
tub— still not satisfactory. Swam the 
Whirlpool and the Rapids in a fig-leaf 
suit. It got much damaged. Hence, 
tedious complaints about my extrav- 
agance. I am too much hampered 
here. What T need is change of scene. 

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Saturday 

I escaped last Tuesday night, and 
travelled two days, and built me an- 
other shelter, in a secluded place, and 
obliterated my tracks as well as I 
could, but she hunted me out by 
means of a beast which she has tamed 
and calls a wolf, and came making 
that pitiful noise again, and shed- 
ding that water out of the places she 
looks with. I was obliged to return 
with her, but will presently emigrate 
again, when occasion offers. She en- 
gages herself in many foolish things: 
among others, trying to study out 
why the animals called lions and 
tigers live on grass and flowers, when, 
as she says, the sort of teeth they 
wear would indicate that they were 
intended to eat each other. This is 
foolish, because to do that would be 

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Saturday 

to kill each other, and that would in- 
troduce what, as I understand it, is 
called "death" ; and death, as I have 
been told, has not yet entered the 
Park. Which is a pity, on some ac- 
counts. 



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Sunday 

Pulled through. 



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Monday 

I believe I see what the week is 
for: it is to give time to rest up from 
the weariness of Sunday. It seems 
a good idea. . . . She has been chmb- 
ing that tree again. Clodded her out 
of it. She said nobody was looking. 
Seems to consider that a sufficient 
justification for chancing any danger- 
ous thing. Told her that. The word 
justification moved her admiration— 
and envy too, I thought. It is a 
good word. 



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Thursday 

She told me she was made out of a 
rib taken from my body. This is at 
least doubtful, if not more than that. 
I have not missed any rib. . . . She is 
in much trouble about the buzzard; 
says grass does not agree with it; is 
afraid she can't raise it; thinks it was 
intended to live on decayed flesh. 
The buzzard must get along the best 
it can with what is provided. We 
cannot overturn the whole scheme to 
accommodate the buzzard. 



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Saturday 

She fell in the pond yesterday, when 
she was looking at herself in it, which 
she is always doing. She nearly 
strangled, and said it was most un- 
comfortable. This made her sorry 
for the creatures which live in there, 
which she calls fish, for she continues 
to fasten names on to things that 
don't need them and don't come when 
they are called by them, which is a 
matter of no consequence to her, as 
she is such a numskull anyway; so 
she got a lot of them out and brought 
them in last night and put them in 
my bed to keep warm, but I have 
noticed them now and then all day, 
and I don't see that they are any hap- 
pier there than they were before, only 
quieter. When night comes I shall 
throw them out-doors. I will not 



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Saturday 

sleep with them again, for I find them 
clammy and unpleasant to lie among 
when a person hasn't anything on. 



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Simday 

Pulled throu2:h. 



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"Tuesday 

She has taken up w4th a snake now. 
The other animals are glad, for she 
was always experimenting with them 
and bothering them; and I am glad, 
because the snake talks, and this en- 
ables me to get a rest. 



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Friday 

She says the snake advises her to 
try the fruit of that tree, and says the 
result will be a great and fine and 
noble education. I told her there 
would be another result, too — it 
would introduce death into the world. 
That was a mistake — it had been bet- 
ter to keep the remark to myself; it 
only gave her an idea — she could 
save the sick buzzard, and furnish 
fresh meat to the despondent lions 
and tigers. I advised her to keep 
away from the tree. She said she 
wouldn't. I foresee trouble. Will 
emigrate. 



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Wednesday 

I have had a variegated time. I 
escaped that night, and rode a horse 
all night as fast as he could go, hop- 
ing to get clear out of the Park and 
hide in some other country before the 
trouble should begin; but it was not 
to be. About an hour after sunup, 
as I was riding through a flowery- 
plain where thousands of animals 
were grazing, slumbering, or playing 
with each other, according to their 
wont, all of a sudden they broke into 
a tempest of frightful noises, and in 
one moment the plain was in a frantic 
commotion and every beast was de- 
stroying its neighbor. I knew what 
it meant — Eve had eaten that fruit, 
and death was come into the world. 
. . . The tigers ate my horse, paying 
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Wednesday 

desist, and they would even have 
eaten me if I had stayed — which I 
didn't, but went away in much haste. 
... I found this place, outside the 
Park, and was fairly comfortable for 
a few days, but she has found me 
out. Found me out, and has named 
the place Tonawanda — says it looks 
like that. In fact, I was not sorry 
she came, for there are but meagre 
pickings here, and she brought some 
of those apples. I was obliged to 
eat them, I was so hungry. It was 
against my principles, but I find that 
principles have no real force except 
when one is well fed. . . . She came 
curtained in boughs and bunches of 
leaves, and when I asked her what 
she meant by such nonsense, and 
snatched them away and threw them 
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Wednesday 

down, she tittered and blushed. I 
had never seen a person titter and 
blush before, and to me it seemed un- 
becoming and idiotic. She said I 
would soon know how it was myself. 
This was correct. Hungry as I was, I 
laid down the apple half eaten — cer- 
tainly the best one I ever saw, con- 
sidering the lateness of the season — 
and arrayed myself in the discarded 
boughs and branches, and then spoke 
to her with some severity and ordered 
her to go and get some more and not 
make such a spectacle of herself. 
She did it, and after this we crept 
down to where the wild-beast battle 
had been, and collected some skins, 
and I made her patch together a 
couple of suits proper for public oc- 
casions. They are uncomfortable, it 

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Wednesday 

is true, but stylish, and that is the 
main point about clothes. ... I find 
she is a good deal of a companion. I 
see I should be lonesome and de- 
pressed without her, now that I have 
lost my property. Another thing, 
she says it is ordered that we work 
for our living hereafter. She will be 
useful. I will superintend. 



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Ten Days Later 

She accuses me of being the cause 
of our disaster! She says, with ap- 
parent sincerity and truth, that the 
Serpent assured her that the forbid- 
den fruit was not apples, it was chest- 
nuts. I said I was innocent, then, 
for I had not eaten any chestnuts. 
She said the Serpent informed her 
that "chestnut" was a figurative 
term meaning an aged and mouldy 
joke. I turned pale at that, for I 
have maae many jokes to pass the 
weary time, and some of them could 
have been of that sort, though I had 
honestly supposed that they were 
new when I made them. She asked 
me if I had made one just at the time 
of the catastrophe. I was obliged 
to admit that I had made one to my- 
self, though not aloud. It was this. 
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Ten Days Later 

I was thinking about the Falls, and I 
said to myself, " How wonderful it is 
to see that vast body of water tumble 
down there!" Then in an instant a 
bright thought flashed into my head, 
and I let it fly, saying, " It would be 
a deal more wonderful to see it tum- 
ble up there!" — and I was just about 
to kill myself with laughing at it 
when all nature broke loose in war 
and death, and I had to flee for my 
Hfe. "There," she said, with tri- 
umph, "that is just it; the Serpent 
mentioned that very jest, and called 
it the First Chestnut, and said it was 
coeval with the creation." Alas, I 
am indeed to blame. Would that I 
were not witty ; oh, would that I had 
never had that radiant thought ! 



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Next Tear 

We have named it Cain. She 
caught it while I was up country 
trapping on the North Shore of the 
Erie ; caught it in the timber a couple 
of miles from our dug-out — or it 
might have been four, she isn't cer- 
tain which. It resembles us in some 
ways, and may be a relation. That 
is what she thinks, but this is an error, 
in my judgment. The difference in 
size warrants the conclusion that it 
is a different and new kind of animal 
— a fish, perhaps, though when I put 
it in the water to see, it sank, and she 
plunged in and snatched it out before 
there was opportunity for the ex- 
periment to determine the matter. 
I still think it is a fish, but she is in- 
different about what it is, and will 
not let me have it to try. I do not 
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Next Tear 

understand this. The coming of the 
creature seems to have changed her 
whole nature and made her unrea- 
sonable about experiments. She 
thinks more of it than she does of any 
of the other animals, but is not able 
to explain why. Her mind is dis- 
ordered — everything shows it. Some- 
times she carries the fish in her arms 
half the night when it complains and 
wants to get to the water. At such 
times the water comes out of the 
places in her face that she looks out 
of, and she pats the fish on the back 
and makes soft sounds with her 
mouth to soothe it, and betrays sor- 
row and solicitude in a hundred ways. 
I have never seen her do like this 
with any other fish, and it troubles 
me greatly. She used to carry the 

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young tigers around so, and play 
with them, before we lost our prop- 
erty ; but it was only play ; she never 
took on about them like this when 
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Sunday 

She doesn't work Sundays, but lies 
around all tired out, and likes to 
have the fish wallow over her; and 
she makes fool noises to amuse it, 
and pretends to chew its paws, and 
that makes it laugh. I have not 
seen a fish before that could laugh. 
This makes me doubt. ... I have come 
to like Sunday myself. Superintend- 
ing all the week tires a body so. 
There ought to be more Sundays. 
In the old days they were tough, but 
now they come handy. 



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Wednesday 

It isn't a fish. I cannot quite 
make ovX what it is. It makes cu- 
rious, devilish noises when not satis- 
fied, and says "goo-goo" when it is. 
It is not one of us, for it doesn't walk ; 
it is not a bird, for it doesn't fly; it is 
not a frog, for it doesn't hop ; it is not 
a snake, for it doesn't crawl; I feel 
sure it is not a fish, though I cannot 
get a chance to find out whether it 
can swim or not. It merely lies 
around, and mostly on its back, with 
its feet up. I have not seen any 
other animal do that before. I said 
I believed it was an enigma, but she 
only admired the word without un- 
derstanding it. In my judgment it is 
either an enigma or some kind of a 
bug. If it dies, I will take it apart 
and see what its arrangements are. 
I never had a thing perplex me so. 

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Three Months Later 

The perplexity augments instead 
of diminishing. I sleep but little. 
It has ceased from lying around, and 
goes about on its four legs now. Yet 
it differs from the other four-legged 
animals in that its front legs are 
unusually short, consequently this 
causes the main part of its person to 
stick up uncomfortably high in the 
air, and this is not attractive. It is 
built much as we are, but its method 
of travelling shows that it is not of 
our breed. The short front legs and 
long hind ones indicate that it is of 
the kangaroo family, but it is a 
marked variation of the species, since 
the true kangaroo hops, whereas this 
one never does. Still, it is a curious 
and interesting variety, and has not 
been catalogued before. As I dis- 
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'Three Months Later 
covered it, I have felt justified in se- 
curing the credit of the discovery by 
attaching my name to it, and hence 
have called it Kangarooruni Adam- 
iensis. ... It must have been a young 
one when it came, for it has grown 
exceedingly since. It must be five 
times as big, now, as it was then, 
and when discontented is able to 
make from twenty-two to thirty- 
eight times the noise it made at first. 
Coercion does not modify this, but has 
the contrary effect. For this reason 
I discontinued the system. She rec- 
onciles it by persuasion, and by giv- 
ing it things which she had previously 
told it she wouldn't give it. As al- 
ready observed, I was not at home 
when it first came, and she told me 
she found it in the woods. It seems 
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Three Months Later 
odd that it should be the only one, 
yet it must be so, for I have worn 
myself out these many weeks trying 
to find another one to add to my 
collection, and for this one to play 
with; for surely then it would be 
quieter, and we could tame it more 
easily. But I find none, nor any 
vestige of any; and strangest of all, 
no tracks. It has to live on the 
ground, it cannot help itself; there- 
fore, how does it get about without 
leaving a track? I have set a dozen 
traps, but they do no good. I catch 
all small animals except that one; 
animals that merely go into the trap 
out of curiosity, I think, to see what 
the milk is there for. They never 
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Three Months Later 

The kangaroo still continues to 
grow, which is very strange and per- 
plexing, I never knew one to be so 
long getting its growth. It has fur 
on its head now; not like kangaroo 
fur, but exactly like our hair, except 
that it is much finer and softer, and 
instead of being black is red. I am 
like to lose my mind over the capri- 
cious and harassing developments of 
this unclassifiable zoological freak. 
If I could catch another one — but 
that is hopeless; it is a new variety, 
and the only sample; this is plain. 
But I caught a true kangaroo and 
brought it in, thinking that this one, 
being lonesome, would rather have 
that for company than have no kin 
at all, or any animal it could feel a 
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Three Months Later 
its forlorn condition here among 
strangers who do not know its ways 
or habits, or what to do to make it 
feel that it is among friends; but it 
was a mistake — it went into such fits 
at the sight of the kangaroo that I 
was convinced it had never seen one 
before. I pity the poor noisy little 
animal, but there is nothing I can do 
to make it happy. If I could tame 
it — but that is out of the question ; 
the more I try, the worse I seem to 
make it. It grieves me to the heart 
to see it in its little storms of sorrow 
and passion. I wanted to let it go, 
but she wouldn't hear of it. That 
seemed cruel and not like her; and 
yet she may be right. It might be 
lonelier than ever; for since I cannot 
find another one, how could it ? 
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Five Months Later 

It is not a kangaroo. No, for it 
supports itself by holding to her fin- 
ger, and thus goes a few steps on its 
hind legs, and then falls down. It is 
probably some kind of a bear; and 
yet it has no tail — as yet — and no fur, 
except on its head. It still keeps on 
growing — that is a curious circum- 
stance, for bears get their growth 
earlier than this. Bears are danger- 
ous — since our catastrophe — and I 
shall not be satisfied to have this 
one prowling about the place much 
longer without a muzzle on. I have 
offered to get her a kangaroo if she 
would let this one go, but it did no 
good — she is determined to run us 
into all sorts of foolish risks, I think. 
She was not like this before she lost 
her mind. 

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A Fortnight Later 

I examined its mouth. There is no 
danger yet ; it has only one tooth. It 
has no tail yet. It makes more noise 
now than it ever did before — and 
mainly at night. I have moved out. 
But I shall go over, mornings, to 
breakfast, and to see if it has more 
teeth. If it gets a mouthful of teeth, 
it will be time for it to go, tail or no 
tail, for a bear does not need a tail in 
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Four Months Later 

I have been off hunting and fishing 
a month, up in the region that she 
calls Buffalo ; I don't know why, un- 
less it is because there are not any 
buffaloes there. Meantime the bear 
has learned to paddle around all by 
itself on its hind legs, and says "pop- 
pa" and "momma." It is certainly 
a new species. This resemblance to 
words may be purely accidental, of 
course, and may have no purpose or 
meaning; but even in that case it is 
still extraordinary, and is a thing 
which no other bear can do. This 
imitation of speech, taken together 
with general absence of fur and entire 
absence of tail, sufficiently indicates 
that this is a new kind of bear. The 
further study of it will be exceedingly 
interesting. Meantime I will go off 
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Four Months Later 
on a far expedition among the forests 
of the North and make an exhaustive 
search. There must certainly be an- 
other one somewhere, and this one 
will be less dangerous when it has 
company of its own species. I will 
go straightway ; but I will muzzle this 
one first. 



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'Three Months hater 

It has been a weary, weary hunt, 
yet I have had no success. In the 
mean time, without stirring from the 
home estate, she has caught another 
one! I never saw such luck. I 
might have hunted these woods a hun- 
dred years, I never should have run 
across that thing. 



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Next Day 

I have been comparing the new 
one with the old one, and it is per- 
fectly plain that they are the same 
breed. I was going to stuff one of 
them for my collection, but she is 
prejudiced against it for some reason 
or other; so I have relinquished the 
idea, though I think it is a mistake. 
It would be an irreparable loss to 
science if they should get away. The 
old one is tamer than it was, and can 
laugh and talk like the parrot, having 
learned this, no doubt, from being 
with the parrot so much, and having 
the imitative faculty in a highly de- 
veloped degree. I shall be astonished 
if it turns out to be a new kind of par- 
rot ; and yet I ought not to be aston- 
ished, for it has already been every- 
thing else it could think of, since those 
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Next Day 

first days when it was a fish. The 
new one is as ugly now as the old one 
was at first; has the same sulphur- 
and-raw-meat complexion and the 
same singular head without any fur 
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Ten Tears Later 

They are boys ; we found it out long 
ago. It was their coming in that 
small, immature shape that puzzled 
us ; we were not used to it. There are 
some girls now. Abel is a good boy, 
but if Cain had stayed a bear it would 
have improved him. After all these 
years, I see that I was mistaken about 
Eve in the beginning; it is better to 
live outside the Garden with her than 
inside it without her. At first 1 
thought she talked too much; but 
now I should be sorry to have that 
voice fall silent and pass out of my 
life. Blessed be the chestnut that 
brought us near together and taught 
me to know the goodness of her heart 
and the sweetness of her spirit ! 

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